Good. Not suprised, but happy for him. Has he made much money out of it, do you know?

On this topic, I have always wondered- How do you actually find games like this?When I go on the APP store its the same games all the time that naturally come to the top and it is impossible to find this sort of thing unless you know of thier existence.

Well done him, about the game above when it says "by the time the credits roll, you'll find yourself taking a long hard look at yourself as (a) person" is that because you've just spent hours playing a video game?

Turntable wrote:On this topic, I have always wondered- How do you actually find games like this?When I go on the APP store its the same games all the time that naturally come to the top and it is impossible to find this sort of thing unless you know of thier existence.

I only found it from knowing my mate and I find the same thing in the app store.

Apple decide what is/isn't shown and it seems very arbitrary. It was immensely frustrating for him because his game wasn't in the "sport game" category for some reason whereas other footie sims were.

He had the top grossing app and the World Cup was about to start but Apple just ignored him when he said it might be a good idea to feature his game in their football promotions.

In terms of cash I've no idea how it's doing now. Looking on iTunes it's 30th in the top grossing chart for 2012. He was peaking around £5-6k/day when all the papers reviewed it but I don't see how that can last for more than a few weeks.

Strawman wrote:It says he's given up his day job to do this, does that mean for the last year or so he's been working like a maniac doing two jobs, he must have been frazzled as a frazzled thing.

He gave up his job in 2006 and set up New Star Games Ltd. It sort of bimbled along for a few years with games on Steam and his own website. By the sounds of it he was able to pay a small mortgage and he was enjoying the job.

New Star Soccer is actually in its 5th iteration and it started as a hobby when he was still working.

As an aside, it always makes me laugh when people are surprised by tax bills.

When I asked him about it he'd sort of forgotten that you pay tax. Previous to the £17k bill he'd spent a few years where tax bills were pennies so he'd always just paid it out of the next month's earnings.

A massive stroke of luck that he got that game to pay for it otherwise he might have had to give it all up and get a proper job before the app got developed.